FOURTH INVESTIGATION

[bathymetric]

Friday morning and, well, you all wake up hungry, I'm sure. Even the vending machine isn't dropping food anymore, apart from sticks of butter, and one cannot live on that for very long. Another week has passed on this ship, and despite the fun communal activity of Accidentally Summoning Calypso, Goddess of the Sea last night, there's a tension in the air that cannot be dispelled or explained by the presence of some supernatural entity.

But hey, relax! The hallway outside your rooms is clear, at least! Most of you are around! And look, there's breakfast in the good ol' Jimmy Buffet!

... Wait, breakfast in the buffet? But that would mean...

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[bathymetric]

[ Well, before you get there...

Something terrible seems to have happened in the Piano Lounge. ]

[paucipan]

[WELP TIME TO GO JOIN LADY FREYJA AND JASPER PROBABLY IN PIANO HELL...

Or well, since we're over here, uh. What...dare she asks happen here...who fucked with the piano...? How is the room looking. Oh dear gods what the fuck did y'all DO]

[dokkalfheimr]

[She's here and probably horrified! What are we looking at?]

[guffawsungraciously]

[oh this is awkward, he didn’t want to have to do a body discovery before breakfast....]

cw gore

[bathymetric]

[ Well, there's a body first and foremost, but uh. There's really no point in being coy about whether this person is alive or dead. For a body to be mistaken for a living person, there are certain things that corpse needs, you know? Like organs.

The face is... mostly untouched, and the clothes give enough clues to tell, but a bodytoucher is going to have a hell of a time here. Sara Werec is very dead, and the scene around her very much supports this theory. ]

jk guess i will use this icon unironically

[jibunwo]

What’s-...

[Whatever color had been in Zero’s face after a week of barely eating immediately left it.]

...Sara?

[thisaroma]

[ Oof, that's a lot! ]

Oh, jeez.

[ Sorry, Sara......... :( ]

[scouserer]

[Constantine does eventually make his way over to the piano lounge, and immediately freezes at the gory sight. Unable to peel his eyes away, he just manages to identify who it is--]

Oh, God.

[He squeezes his eyes shut.]

A fucking child. Who would just--she was a child!

[His shaky hands have balled into fists, and his voice has a note of...rage?]

[jibunwo]

[one seventeen year old is a pile of organs and the other is 404ing out of this plane of existence so sorry constantine you’re in charge today]

[sivard]

[Zaveid is right with you there, buddy.]

[guffawsungraciously]

[...

Oh.

What the hell he didn’t. He didn’t expect to feel punched in the gut two weeks in a row.]

cw: someone's kinda triggered by, uh, this kind of gore

[cethflayn]

[Hey it sounds like people are going this way? Flayn is following, still vibrating in a panic-










Sara]

S...Sara? Sara...! SARA!!!

[S-Someone get Flayn out of here she's collapsing to her knees and does not look okay, she is crying, hands over her mouth to keep from screaming, visibly shaking. This is bad.]

[ltcommandroid]

Flayn!

[Data reaches out to catch her, the one guy who's...well, not impassive, really. But he's still a lot less freaking out than everyone else.

He'd love to take her out of here, but this seems like a bodytouching job for Guy Who Can't Get Sick...he looks around.]

Will someone please help Flayn away from here?

[paucipan]

[...WELL.

Guess who is fucking leaving the way she came, oh dear gods Plumeria hates everything. Y'all have fun over there, bodytouchers, she is out!]

[scythegun]

[Oh hey, here's the body—]

Oh dear. This is going to be difficult.

[dokkalfheimr]

[She's quiet for a moment, just kind of...staring? She's seen bodies a few times while she's been here, but this...

This is something she's seen before, in the dreams of those who have seen things she can't even begin to conceive of. But this is undeniably real and it's someone she knows and it's right in front of her, and she isn't sure when she clamped her hands over her mouth but the fact of the matter is that she has, and she finds that she can't really...move...outside of that.]

[ahelpingpaw]

Wh-What? How--what?!

[Oh this is too much to see. Filbo immediately turns his back, he saw enough: Sara is dead and it really, seriously is worse than the last three times.

Yeah no, he's not investigating the piano lounge at all today, he's leaving this to someone who can bear to see any of this]

[magycks]

[ Oh, okay, so that's why!! ]

Oof.

Re: cw gore

[leaveittomother]

[Reika's lured in by the noises and... well that's a sight! She frowns.]

I see...

[That's a thing.]

[hellahighwater]

[ Yeah. Yeah, this is— ]

Sara- holy shit—

[ NOPE. Nope she's- she's out. ]

[bathymetric]

[ You know, for those of you not stricken completely with grief upon seeing a mutilated body...

There's some evidence to suggest something else might have happened in the bowling alley further on. ]

[silentscout]

[Well. It's hard to miss all of the yelling, so Lalli will be on his way over there soon enough.

Though when he reaches the door, he stops and covers his mouth with his hand.

Even if this level of gore is not unfamiliar to him, it's always a shock to see. Give him a moment, he's trying not to scream.]

[sivard]

[Oh. Oh this is horrifying.]

[thisaroma]

[ Brushing a few flakes of snow off himself as he comes up the stairs... Ah.

All right, what have we got. ]

[magycks]

[ Oh hey, looks like everyone's congregating! ]